#thoughts on eggs

[younggayanddoingokay]

my whole life i thought i disliked omelets. Nope. turns out i just dislike WESTERN omelets. Asian-style omelets are objectively fantastic. Indian, vietnamese, etc. If an omelette isn't thin enough to roll like a fruit roll-up, get it off my plate

[rabid-transcendentalist]

let's go for a swim with mama

[1alchemistart]

this is based entirely off of the fact that the "complete without issue" chapter completion trophies are cancelled if you get the eggs, making the eggs the issue LKDSLKF

i just think it would be so funny if we had two mysterious forgotten guys and they hated each other

[lemongogo]

mimics

[kedreeva]

There's some dude (derogatory) on FB who is PISSED people are pricing their farm fresh eggs at $2 and $3 a dozen instead of $4+, saying it's "disrespectful" and "undignified" and "I'm trying to feed my kids" like Sir, you are on a Facebook group page bitching about your neighbors egg prices because your pet chickens aren't earning you a living wage and you think it's your neighbors' fault, you do not have a leg to stand on here wrt dignity.

Also half the answers are like "I give them to friends and family free" or "I donate them to food banks" or "I'm making them affordable to folks who might not otherwise be able to get them now that they're so expensive in the store" and "if you think you're going to turn a profit keeping backyard chickens you have been wildly misled" and so on, and so forth, and I'm so living for it.

and I can tell you right now, he did NOT like my answer of "if you're trying to feed your kids, I hear eggs are edible."

[shmorblor]

as if shmilk has any right to give dating advice after his chapters

[lotus-pear]

charm stat at debonair ‼️‼️

[toyastales]

Breakfast Sandwich

[silverskydreamer]

"They didn't recognise me at first... but then... they thought I was you..."

Presenting Michael Afton!

If you've been on tumblr, you can recognise the influence from @chloesimaginationthings. Her work is sooooo good. Would highly recommend.

I'm really happy with how this turned out. Probably should have changed his clothes depending on his state but, oh well!

[composeregg]

edit (10/23/2024) now that the poll is over: Original version, with 10 questions, from April 2023 here

And, given that the original is from April 2023, that means I can very easily say:

No, this was not an ISAT reference!

Just because I use parentheses and 2nd person pov and love the same concepts of what a time loop can do to a person doesn't mean it's ISAT

(Yes, I like ISAT, the original poll is why I was recommended the game! But if you look at the original, you can see all the origins of the options to choose from, including what spurred me on with the moss option from the replies)

If I were going to make something for ISAT, I would never be so vague, you can simply look at my ao3 for proof of that

[mayhaps-a-blog]

There's something that bothers me a little about the complaints that the Preservation Alliance team aren't "professional" in the show compared to the books, and I think it's just... I have a different idea of what professional science looks like.

Even in the books, we don't actually see the team do that much science. They take some "samples", and SecUnit thinks of them as professionals, but other than SecUnit's internal monologue, they don't do that much more than in the show. They actually talk more about their work in the show than in the books!

I wonder if some of it is that the Preservation Alliance doesn't fit what people's idea of a competent scientist, particularly a competent scientist on TV, looks like. They're expecting the Big Bang Theory, or Gurathin bent over a computer terminal muttering "I'm in" as green code plays across his face, or Arada rattling off a bunch of jargon while dissecting an alien creature, or Bharadwaj IDing the alien remnant based on rocks or something. And that's not really how science actually... works.

Honestly, as a scientist, this is one of the more realistic depictions of actual science I could expect from a TV show, unless you wanted to watch several hours of people working quietly at their computers with expressions of various levels of exhaustion, annoyance, and stress on their faces, or sorting samples, or wandering around staring at the dirt, or sitting around debating the nature of "nature" and the ethical implications of terraforming or whatever (which would be cool, but also, not plot relevant, I'll just assume it's happening off-screen). I could sort half my coworkers by which character they're most like: the upbeat professor who's always trying to help (Bharadwaj), the hippy biologist who freaks out about disturbing 'natural processes' (Arada), the extra-friendly super outgoing possibly ADHD guy (Ratthi), and the overly cynical constantly complaining about capitalism and swearing over his grants analyst (Gurathin). I don't know who's got the open marriage because I prefer not to know about the sex lives of my coworkers, but I know some are in pretty messy relationships - that don't spill over into their work. Because they are professionals.

Basically, I look at this show and I see - my office. So when people say that they're not competent, that they're bumbling or not good scientists, honestly, it's kind of annoying. They're people, not just scientists, with stuff going on outside of their work, namely: someone's trying to kill them, something that absolutely none of them are prepared for. You don't learn how to handle that in grad school! Of course they're going to be messy and make mistakes - that's what people do. Scientists too.

[fluentisonus]

happy easter to helen and her egg <3 btw

"[In Sparta] is a sanctuary of Hilaeira and of Phoebe... Here there his been hung from the roof an egg tied to ribands, and they say that it is the famous egg that legend says Leda brought forth."

Pausanias, Description of Greece 3.16.1, trans. Jones

[eggsploded]

heiress eternal

[anyataylorjoys]

STRANGE DARLING (2023) dir. JT Mollner

[luckyblackcatxiii]

Continuing to try and clean up my pile of CoS WIPs (though I'm going to stop prefacing these with that after this post, promise)!

Reuniting Ismark and Ireena was a very sweet moment for Saverio to witness, though it brought a mixture of happiness, envy--he and his brothers certainly are far more reserved than the Kolyan siblings back home--newfound understanding of things--Ismark can in fact smile and probably doesn't look as haggard as he normally does naturally--and most of all: a strengthening of conviction

How he'll achieve that dream, I guess we'll find out in time...~

[egophiliac]

I've had a beast of a cold for the last few days, but I wanted to get this out before the new year! while I've sort of made my peace with my first take on Lilia's UM poster, I really wanted to do a version with the new context that chapter 6 gave us. because. c'mon.

(don't worry, Lilia can carry ALL HIS KIDS AT ONCE)